The Depth of a Poet

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I think the trouble with this commentary is that it is just so darn easy to get lost in Heidegger's point. I don't know what I was expecting of him really, but I know it wasn't this, and might I say, I'm thoroughly surprised and pleased! At base level, Heidegger didn't take a critical stance of the poet 'on trial' if you will, but rather an appreciative and enlightening one towards his poetry's greater meaning. That's probably a win with me personally because I like talking about things that I appreciate and get and love. The reading was honestly dreary and lost me on multiple occasions, but backing up and seeing the big picture was helpful and overall, appreciated.

I loved this passage that actually avoids a number of the 'big points' he seems to hit, but I think is the heart of the essay.

"The poem makes no direct statement about the ground of all beings, that is, about Being as the venture pure and simple. But if Being as venture is the relation of flinging loose, and thus retains in the flinging even what has been ventured, then the poem tells us something indirectly about the venture by speaking of what has been ventured."

This is the art of poetry. What beauty! What skill for one to be able to weave words in such a way to convey so many valuable, all-encompassing-time, holy and divine things!

I commented on Nat's and Phillip's.

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